August 28th 2024: You have to look hard to find this! Another part of the vine is beginning to climb up the wall, so hopefully next year any flowers will be more obvious.
You have to search quite carefully to find this beauty.
It is particularly pleasing to see these blooming again this year. Last year they displayed beautiful large leaves, but sadly no flowers. They were new to our garden in 2022.
It's worth making the journey to the end of the garden to see the many colours of these lovely plants.
Watch this space as this glorious specimen comes into flower. This is one of the stalwarts of our garden that brings joy year after year.
Looking good on 6th July, 2024. This nasturtium overwintered successfully having been grown from seed and flowering well in 2023. It has survived having the container blown over twice in the strong winds in the spring. The variegated leaves are particularly unusual.
Just past the longest day of the year, the garden is looking good.
This is one of two fledgling birds that we reckon are robins. They were assisting the gardening group in their tasks on 1st June 2024. You can clearly see the gradual transition from chick to adult feathers.
Both birds showed real robin-like interest in the gardening activities - one person was heard to say that they were worried about turning around because every time they turned one of the robins was there, watching.........
These delightful blooms appear every year with no input from the gardening group!
The first clematis flower of 2024
This climbing nasturtium survived the winter intact, despite being classed as an "annual".
Uncertain variety purchased four years ago from the greengrocer in the crescent
The flowers don't last long, so go and take a look now!
and the white wisteria has developed some more flower buds - watch this space!
Our new rose is called The Generous Gardener and comes from David Austin Roses
This is it's second year of flowers
The firtst sign that this may flower this year - the first time it has flowered since it was planted some 5 years ago.
We have a great deal of chicken wire in the garden shed (bin store to the uninitiated) - we use it to try and prevent the wild life from our neighbours (squirrels to you and me) from destroying all our handiwork. Keep your fingers crossed that the black-eyed susans, marigolds, california poppies and trailing nasturtiums planted on 10th April will survive and thrive.
This is what happens within 24 hours of planting out if chicken wire precautions are not taken. They just dig in case we've buried anything nutritious.
The grand annual (well, this is the first) Easter Egg Hunt!